How Did Marco Polo Impact The World

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There are many famous people in world history. Some of them have changed history while history has changed others. When it comes to Marco Polo, he changed history. He was fearless, he never turned back from his journey no matter how dangerous it was. He was also a very curious person, he would always want to find new places and discover new things. Whenever he had met a new civilization he would write down all the interesting facts about those civilizations into one book. He then published the book for all people to see. The book impacted every civilization all around the world because people in some civilizations would start to follow other customs that they weren’t accustomed to follow. Before the book all the civilizations knew about was their own customs, but now they can try new things rather than the same things over and over again. Before Marco Polo was born his father went with his uncle on a journey to China. He was born before they got back. His mother died a little while after he was born. He then had nowhere to stay except for his aunt. He grew up in a very wealthy family. While he could have just stayed at home his whole life he decided to …show more content…

How might you ask??.. There are some serious ways he effected us and some what funny ways he affected our culture now a days. Let's start with the serious ways he affected us. First of all, without Marco Polo Christopher Columbus would have never found America. What brought Christopher Columbus to America was Marco Polo’s descriptions from his book. Marco Polo also uncovered China for the Europeans. And because of Marco Polo, the Silk Road used to be something nobody knew about but now everybody knows about it because of him. Marco Polo also wrote one of the first well written books in history (independant travels). Even though most people believe that not everything that Marco Polo wrote in his book was true, the other three quarters of his book was

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